Baking Manufacturing · Alabama

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC

Name: Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Opelika, AL · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Baking Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC: 7.3 TCR = 222% of Baking Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC safety composite

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC: 7.8 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2019

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 7.8 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Opelika, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 222% of ind

DART 6.2 DART
RANK #16/18
PHOTO Lowell Bakery
BOOK 3y book
INJ 34 inj
SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowell Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC averages 7.3 TCR (222% of the Baking Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=5.3 · 2019=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC falls in its industry

1,014 Baking Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 Baking Manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC (124 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Flowers Baking Co. of Opelika, LLC has more employees than the Baking Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries
2019	8.9	6.2	13
2017	5.3	3.3	8
2016	7.8	5.4	13

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · AL · Opelika

1,014 Baking Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 87 employers in Opelika, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Lowell Bakery	LOWELL, IN	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Teeny Foods Corp	PORTLAND, OR	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	White Castle System, Inc. - Rensselaer Bakery	RENSSELAER, IN	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	625 Charleston SC	CHARLESTON, SC	7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Southeastern Extrusion & Tool, Inc.	FLORENCE	124 FTE
STATE-SIZE	EFI Alabama	ELKMONT	124 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Beard Equipment Company of Mobile	MOBILE	124 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1737 LOWE S OF LEEDS AL	LEEDS	124 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6095	Opelika	849 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 6095	Opelika	843 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mando America Corporation	Opelika	493 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC. Opelika	Opelika	470 FTE
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0027 3545	Milton, WA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0025 2856	Pleasanton, CA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter Hotel	San Antonio, TX	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stericycle Environmental Solutions - San Jose,CA	San Jose, CA	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	5729 W Denneys Rd	Dover, DE	124 FTE
NAT-SIZE	5472-Swy 0035 2713	Bowie, MD	124 FTE
NAT-SIZE	8701 W 50th Street	Mccook, IL	124 FTE
NAT-SIZE	11360 Northeast Avenue	Philadelphia, PA	124 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.